Consistent searches for SMEFT effects in non-resonant dilepton events (original) (raw)

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Employing the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, we perform a detailed reinterpretation of measurements of the Weinberg angle in dilepton production as a search for new-physics effects. We truncate our signal prediction at order 1/Λ2, where Λ denotes the new-physics mass scale, and introduce a theory error to account for unknown contributions of order 1/Λ4. Two linear combinations of four-fermion operators with distinct angular behavior contribute to dilepton production with growing impact at high energies. We define suitable angular observables and derive bounds on those two linear combinations using data from the Tevatron and the LHC. We find that the current data is able to constrain interesting regions of parameter space, with important contributions at lower cutoff scales from the Tevatron, and that the future LHC data will eventually be able to simultaneously constrain both independent linear combinations which contribute to dilepton production.

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  1. PRISMA Cluster of Excellence & Mainz Institute of Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099, Mainz, Germany
    Stefan Alte & William Shepherd
  2. Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, CH-8057, Switzerland
    Matthias König
  3. Physics Department, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, 77341, U.S.A.
    William Shepherd

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Alte, S., König, M. & Shepherd, W. Consistent searches for SMEFT effects in non-resonant dilepton events.J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 144 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)144

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